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Technology Stocks : Apple Inc.
AAPL 277.47+0.2%Nov 26 3:59 PM EST
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To: HerbVic who wrote (6469)11/19/1997 6:33:00 AM
From: FR1  Read Replies (2) of 213173
 
>Not that it will affect todays stock price, but here's an interesting bit of history on how the MacOS almost made its way onto Intel boxes.<

That's not half as good as the story going on right now:
1) AAPL has on line ordering.
2) AAPL has the facilities to manufacture computers.
3) AAPL owns Rhapsody which runs on intel machines.
4) Selling Intel boxes is where all the volume and bucks are.
5) AAPL can offer Intel boxes with Rhapsody or MSFT (or both) OS.
6) MSFT support? - Farm it out to MSFT or a 3rd party vendor.

AAPL can offer it in January!.....but noooo - we gotta snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. If you buy a Intel box and you don't like any of the MSFTsoftware you can use NeXT or SOLARIS or various Unix OSs. Right now if you buy a Mac box you either use MAC or you got a very expensive paper weight. If you are a MIS director and your job depended on it, which box would you buy?
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